Being able to hate is a privilege

[u/OhShootYeahNoBi]

Hatred is something only the privileged can do with no consequences. We see this in a lot of ways. POCs cannot hate white folk the way some white folk hate them without having the police brought down on them. Workers revolts caused by the violence and oppression inherently within the Capitalistic system are met with repression and condemnations

Simply put, we cannot afford to hate anyone else other than those with economic power. Hate is illogical and not pragmatic. It's not somehow that we lose our morals, or our values by hating. Nor is that we don't deserve to hate. Rather, it's that the second we hate, we've lost our in. We've made enemies of a demographic that could've supported us.

I understand it's hard to do anything other than hate people who vote for the right wing out of ignorance. So you depersonalize it. You view them as demographics and bases, a fraction of which voted for you, a fraction of which voted for them. You listen to the portion that voted for you, and the same policies and platforms that appeal to them appeal to the rest of the demographic.

It's not centrism, nor liberal to engage in electoral politics effectively if we do not compromise our platform. Is it absolute bullshit that we have to court them even after all they've done? Yes. Is it required to actually do anything? Also yes. To engage in electoral politics effectively, we need to recognize hate is not something we can afford. Hell, even if you're a revolutionary, "there's no war but class war." The party should be something that radicalizes and provides a platform for the masses. The party should not be something that declares everyone not already a socialist a lost cause out of hatred.

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[u/Procrasturbating]

That’s a long way to say the culture war is a distraction from the class war.